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For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: Obama to address race and Rev. Wright: An aide to Obama, whose speech will be delivered at a historic building across from Philadelphia's Liberty Bell at 10:15 a.m. EDT (1415 GMT), said the speech will have a strong personal element. Obama worked late into the night on Sunday drafting it...Of particular concern is the uproar over comments…
ABC's Greenburg Gives 2nd Amendment Fair Shot
Could this photo be a first? It shows a card-carrying member of the MSM shooting a handgun. That's Jan Crawford Greenburg, an ABC News legal correspondent. The clip, pun intended, of Greenburg on the firing range was part of a segment she narrated on today's Good Morning America on a case to be argued before the Supreme Court today. At issue is the District of Columbia's law banning handguns…
NewsBusted
Topics in this episode: Eliot Spitzer's prostitution scandal, Barack Obama's controversial pastor, declining profits at the New York Times, an Olympic runner says he won't run in Beijing because of city's bad pollution, and the movie "10,000 BC."Like the show? Get involved! Add NewsBusted as a friend on MySpace, do battle with the leftists on our YouTube channel, or embed today's episode on your…
'Startling Parallels' Between George Bush....and King George III
Sunday's Book World section in The Washington Post was devoted, as its cover suggested, to "Iraq: Six books on the lives lost, the money spent and the opportunities squandered." The cover photo implied two American soldiers pointing guns at a terrified and bloodied Iraqi man. Every book reviewed was a liberal book on Iraq or the broader Middle East, and every one was pronounced as wise. But the…
ABC Finds Optimistic Iraqis and Kids Playing Safely on the Street
Marking the fifth anniversary of the war in Iraq, ABC's Wold News on Monday provided a status check on how Iraqis view their lives and, consistent with how the newscast has been the most willing of the broadcast network evening shows to acknowledge positive developments, anchor Charles Gibson explained “we have polled inside Iraq and there is some good news.” Specifically, “today, 55 percent of…
Obama's Church of Slurs
Barack Obama looks phony either way. Either he missed all of these sermons or he sincerely thinks that hateful, race-baiting, America-bashing sermons are part of a pleasant Sunday worship experience. The press has an obligation to pursue this.
Jon Stewart with Dana Perino: Ari Fleischer, Ugly Serial Killer
White House press secretary Dana Perino appeared on The Daily Show Thursday night, and host Jon Stewart disparaged former spokesman Ari Fleischer as looking like a caveman. When Perino protested that Fleischer had a female following, Stewart cracked "Is that like the women who visit murderers in prison? Like the serial killer kind of a thing?" Perino said most questions don’t fluster her, except…
Ongoing Blackout of Wright's 9/11 Rant, Only ABC Covers Him Monday
The broadcast network evening show blackout, of Reverend Jeremiah Wright's 2001 charge that the U.S. earned the 9/11 attacks, continued Monday night as neither CBS nor NBC touched the Wright issue and ABC ran a full story which included Wright's “U.S. of K-K-K-A” hate speech and how Obama has been close to Wright for 20 years, but concluded with how “many African-Americans do not understand” the…
AP Just Noticed 'Iraq War Disappears' From TV
Apparently, AP's television writer David Bauder just noticed that the Iraq war has been canceled as TV fare lately. Maybe Mr. Bauder should have been reading Newsbusters because our own Rich Noyes noticed how the war had vanished from TV all the way back on Feb. 28th.
Of course, Bauder is trying to spin this neglect as mere "fatigue," as if the war were a fad that people have just grown tired…
CBS Trots Out 'Great Depression' References in Wake of Bear Collapse
CBS's morning show gives a very grim report about the state of the economy after J.P. Morgan and the Federal Reserve act to keep beleaguered investment bank from failing.
ABC's Roberts Fawns Over Heart-Warming Clinton Charity
"Good Morning America" co-host Robin Roberts interviewed Bill Clinton for nine minutes over two segments on Monday and somehow managed to avoid discussing the disgraced Eliot Spitzer and controversial Reverend Jeremiah Wright. Instead, GMA again featured another positive look at the Clinton Global initiative and its plan to fight poverty and get young people involved. Roberts gushed, "It's got to…
CBS ‘Early Show’ Discusses Obama’s Pastor, No Mention of Most Co
On Monday’s CBS "Early Show," a total of over 13 minutes of coverage was given to the controversy involving comments of Barack Obama’s pastor, Jeremiah Wright, but only 16 seconds was given to play video of Wright’s comments, video which did not include some of the Reverend’s most shocking comments that September 11 was caused by U.S. foreign policy or that the AIDS virus was part of a government…